20th Century Notes

Michael Kimmage,"Communism, Rising and Falling," Dissent, 4 May, reviews Archie Brown's The Rise and Fall of Communism, David Priestland's The Red Flag: A History of Communism, and Vladislav Zubok's Zhivago's Children: The Last Intelligentsia. Hat tip.

At Copenhagen in 1932, Leon Trotsky argues that World War I and the Russian revolution have recentered world history (in English):

Dominic Sandbrook reviews Michael Burleigh's Moral Combat: A History of World War II for London's Sunday Times, 16 May. Jan Morris reviews Fergal Keane's Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944.

Adam Kirsch,"‘Suite' Ironies," Tablet, 18 May, reviews Olivier Philipponat's and Patrick Lienhardt's The Life of Irène Némirovsky.